ENERGY, MIND AND HAPPINESS OF NOTHINGNESS

Meher Baba

In man, the mind is the seat of desires and thoughts, energy
is the seat of force and vigour, and the body, typifying
happiness, is the seat of happiness and misery. Hence these
desires and thoughts, force and vigour, happiness and misery are
respectively the finite aspect of the limited mind, energy and
body of man.

Although these aspects of the finite basis of the triple
nature of man  the mind, the energy and the body (typifying
happiness)  are finite, due to the fact that they are the
outcome of manifestation of the most finite Nothing, yet these
finite aspects of mind, energy and body demonstrate their
capabilities ad infinitum.

This is because each of these finite bases of the triple
nature of man  the energy, the mind and the body (typifying
happiness)  is closely linked with and upheld by each of the
three infinite bases of the trio-nature of God (sat-chit-anand),
infinite power, infinite knowledge and infinite bliss.

The fact is that when the latent infinite trio-nature of God
is gradually manifested out of the gradual projection of the
finite Nothing, and when it simultaneously protrudes the
projection of the finite Nothing as Nothingness manifested ad
infinitum, this very same infinite trio-nature of God, at this
state of manifestation, becomes enmeshed in the apparent and
false infinity of the Nothingness and thus gets itself expressed
as the finite triple nature of man with capabilities demonstrated
ad infinitum.

How (1) the mind, (2) the energy and (3) the body, as the
triple nature of man, demonstrate their capabilities ad
infinitum in Illusion is clearly experienced through (1) the
inventive mind of a scientist, who finds no end to discoveries
and inventions; (2) through the release of nuclear energy in
Illusion, which has reached a stage where it threatens with its
own force of illusion to destroy the very Nothingness out of
which it emerged and evolved into such a terrific force; (3)
through the body (typifying happiness) which, now keeping pace
with the advanced progress of the evolution of the Nothing, is
infinitely urged to seek greater and greater happiness to such an
extent that happiness actually becomes the very basis of the life
of illusion.

The only reason for such infinite demonstration in the field
of Nothingness (which is Illusion) is because the basic finite
triple nature of man  energy, mind and happiness of Nothingness
 is upheld and stretched out ad infinitum by the basic
infinite trio-nature of God  infinite power, infinite knowledge
and infinite bliss of Everything.

Infinite power is unbounded and is never reduced nor
exhausted, whereas finite energy, though linked with infinite
power, is reduced and exhausted because it is only the outcome of
the Nothing manifested as the finite energy of Nothingness.

Infinite knowledge is eternal, uniform and all-pervading and
therefore is without a break in its continuity. The limited mind,
however, though linked with infinite knowledge, is annihilated
and made to vanish ultimately because it is the outcome of the
Nothing manifested as the finite mind of Nothingness.

Infinite bliss is bliss eternal and continual and because it
is perpetual it is without any opposite aspect. Happiness, on
the other hand, although linked with infinite bliss, is not
perpetual and therefore it has an opposite aspect of misery. This
finite happiness vanishes, even though it is the very basis of
the life of the human being, because life itself is transient. As
the life of illusion is the outcome of the Nothing manifested as
the life of Nothingness, this life must perish.